Should you play FFXIV? As Objective as I Can Be

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can you tell why I picked lalfell?
https://i.imgur.com/RLWaCwL.png

we arent popotos!

p.s. miqo’te kebabs are better

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You know I think the biggest problem with ffxiv is the racism against us potatoes :potato:

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wouldn’t that be… vegetablism?

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You won the internet for the day lol

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And, the full version is on sale for half price ($30), probably because there’s a new expansion on the way. https://ffxiv.na.square-enix.com/ It also comes with the first month included, which makes it effectively $15.00 to try for a month.
I Tried to order it, but my old trial account credentials don’t work, and I can’t create a new one using the same email address :frowning:
Submitted support request to delete old account data.)

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Yeah, I don’t know if they can delete old account data. I know they did something wierd recently about not upgrading trial accounts anymore to close a potential exploit. Either way, welcome to the game.

Another thing to mention, if you level to 30 on a preferred realm you get 15 free days once on an account.

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lalafell arent popotos!

Lalafell are best race and undeniably the most adorable! (i mean have you SEEN Nanamo? sooooo beautiful)

fun fact!
even if you buy game, wait to activate it!

play the game using the trial and lvl cap your classes then activate it ;D

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I played in the beta for ARR, liked it, bought it, played for a bit, stopped for a long time. I decided to pick it up again during a spring break from college cause i was bored with WoD, made a femroe (one of the few in the world), kept with it since i was enjoying it more than WoD. I’m pretty much a tank main since dps is a little tricky (probably doesn’t help that i’m trying to play the most positional heavy dps being monk). I really love tanking cause of the whole enmity (threat) management, mitigation rotation, and trying to push as much dps when I can drop my tank stance.

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I agree the tanking is more enjoyable. Though I am a Stormblood baby, veteran friends actually look down on the tanking today, as apparently mitigation was even more challenging earlier on in FFXIV’s 2.0-3.0.

rarer than any wow mount.
p.s. lalafell are NOT made to marry roegadyn. its disturbing.

iirc when they re-did the combat system they also removed soem stuff and made it less button intensive (aka they pruned a bit).

this did annoy me on my WHM as lost some enjoyable skills :frowning:

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Don’t lewd the lala.

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paladin got better, which it needed since HW had mostly magic damage making PLD usless, warrior and DRK kinda got nerfed at release. Since I mostly play WAR and DRK, WAR has gotten so easy compared to HW and DRK has problems like dark arts spam that gets you animation locked and has to try so hard to reach dps numbers that WAR and PLD can do easier and it still doesn’t help that they lack utility that the other two have. I’m hoping that in shadowbringers, DRK gets some nice utility or stronger mitigation cause its the worst of the tanks (not as bad as HW PLD tho).

DRK got a buff in the recent patch and everyone and their mother is leveling one after seeing the new xpac trailer

It’s the “poster boy” of SB2 soooo hopefully! That or gunblade is amazing and a tank. Think that will be the Jan Fanfest announcement, gunblade, with Dancer in the next one.

agreed.
pure and innocent just like Sultana Nanamo Ul Namo.


http://i.imgur.com/YSckyyJ.gif

though the 1 exception is Teledji…he deserved his fate >:(!

Patch in 1 week. Raid available day of. (Crazy, I know!)

I finally got back in in trial mode by resetting my password. (The message was rather cryptic). Then, when I logged in, I got an account at risk message, which made me change my password again. Now it’s downloading updates to the game.
So, hopefully, it will let me play for a while in trial mode at least.
Are there any particular servers to recommend? (or avoid :slight_smile:

Just pick a preferred server, they have 100% experience boosts. Other than that, only DC really matters unless you’re looking to make lots of gil endgame or you want to eventually buy a house. And since US data centers are about to get shook up, no point in worrying about that right now.

Hey just wanted to say thanks for the awesome and well written post. Really informative and put together in a way that is useful.

For me personally I just don’t think I have the time to devote to a game like FFXIV these days and I’ve tried to get into it several times. The Combat just seemed too slow paced and greatly disliked that most of the Melee combat effects ended with sparkley light explosions for no reason. If the combat became more reactive and moment to moment or at least felt more impactful and engaging I might be able to enjoy the rest of the amazing package presented by Square Enix.

But mostly what we do in these games is combat… so, theres that.